Seventeen interviews with the award-winning American poet George Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique account of a major American poet’s evolution, through the Depression, war, exile and a return to poetry after two decades of silence.

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Much of my writing, research and photography deals with what I have come to call "new authenticies" and "real imaginary spaces" -- sites, experiences and even mind sets evoked by the past or another culture that through study, yearnings and even fantasies are transformed into something else that is quite different but often just as "real" as the original.

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